IBM
filenames of distributed releases
Hi,
there are package managers (resp. maintainers) out there which can rely on versioned tarballs provided by upstream distributors to make work easier and more maintainable.
For pkgsrc the way the plex fonts are distributed right now this means I rely on some hacks to not have name/file conflicts once plex updates. The distfiles end up in folders named "plex" with an appended "-" followed by the version without a revision, only to prevent collision in release distfiles and their hashes.
Other package managers will have similar workarounds such as renaming the files when they are downloaded.
I think that you can work together with us distributors by switching to a more machine processable and storage oriented names - for example for a hypothetical version 3.0.0:
- plex-truetype-3.0.0.zip
- plex-opentype-3.0.0.zip
- plex-web-3.0.0.zip
I think this is a question for the maintainers of the repo. We don't define the filenames of the releases. cc: @vpicone
Will we finally have the version number in the release in the next update?
